Oh No! "Lean for Dummies"
Tip of the hat to Jon Miller for finding this first. I have to chime in. I’m sure a lot of us have joked about it, a book called “Lean for Dummies.” Unfortunately, now it is here: Lean For Dummies.…
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In Inspectors We Trust?
U.S. Mint goof creates ‘Godless dollars’ – Boston.com This isn’t a political blog, so the intent isn’t to debate if our U.S. currency *should* say “In God We Trust.” We’re here to debate the best way to make sure that,…
"Be Careful" is Not Enough
I was boarding an American Airlines Super 80 at DFW yesterday, I noticed a warning sign on the controls of the jet bridge. As I’ve said before, “warning signs are not error proofing.” That certainly applies here. There was a…
The Excitement of Starting with Lean
One thing I love about doing consulting work is that you get to see people go through the early excitement of learning about lean for the first time. Seeing the proverbial light bulbs going off is energizing, to say the…
Followup: Nurse Gets Probation
The Capital Times Follow up to this original story: Thao was initially charged in the case with a felony count of causing great bodily harm to a patient by negligence, a charge which came after an investigation by the State…
PDCA-ing the Wii
Nintendo to replace 3.2M Wii straps Wii mishaps lead to busted TVs, injuries If you’ve heard about the new Nintendo Wii videogame system, you know it has a motion control sensor that you wave around to play games. Maybe it…
Assembly Line TV Shows?
Hollywood Report – WSJ.com: I’m not a fan of “The O.C.” but this caught my eye in the WSJ today: “What went wrong at ‘The O.C.’? It’s impossible to pinpoint an exact reason, since TV series aren’t assembly-line products that…
Lean on the Road
While traveling, even on vacation, you can see lean concepts abound: SFO airport, the escalator has a sign that says “no carts” (the big luggage carts), but they also put in an error proofing device, a “template” that is wide…
Lost Baggage is Management’s Fault
Frustration Grows at Carousel as More Baggage Goes AstrayW. Edwards Deming is famous (but not famous enough) for pointing out that most errors are the fault of the system and that the system is ultimately management’s responsibility, not the individual…
"We make it easy to do it right"
I saw the phrase in the title of this post on a BFI bin for recycling pop cans. I believe BFI was purchased by Allied Waste Industries 6 or 7 years ago. The bins certainly appear to be at least…
Lean Couture?
Money News:- Louis Vuitton Tries Modern Methods on Factory Lines – AOL Money & Finance Catching up on articles from the past few weeks, this originally ran front page Wall St. Journal. A year ago, it took 20 to 30…
We Need to Error Proof Voting
Voting glitches feared on Nov. 7 | Chicago Tribune Why is Lean such a powerful methodology? I think part of the reason is because it’s so rarely applied in the “real world” — the notions of good system design and…